Wednesday, February 29, 2012

"If I'm following a general, and he's leading me into a battle, and the enemy tends to give him rewards, or awards, or rave reviews, or interviews. Especially Utusang Malaysia. I get suspicious of him." - ~Libang Libu~

"El Castillo," a Mayan temple on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico,
with a mysterious "light beam" emerging from the top.

When Hector Siliezar visited the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza with his wife and kids in 2009, he snapped three iPhone photos of El Castillo, a pyramid that once served as a sacred temple to the Mayan god Kukulkan. A thunderstorm was brewing near the temple, and Siliezar was trying to capture lightning crackling dramatically over the ruins.

In the first two images, dark clouds loom above the pyramid, but nothing is amiss. However, in the third photo, a powerful beam of light appears to shoot up from the pyramid toward the heavens, and a thunderbolt flashes in the background.

Siliezar, who recently shared his photographs with occult investigators, told Earthfiles.com that he and his family didn't see the light beam in person; it appeared only on camera. "It was amazing!" he said. He showed the iPhone photo to his fellow tourists. "No one, not even the tour guide, had ever seen anything like it before."

The photo has surfaced on several Mayan doomsday discussion forums. But was the light beam a sign from the gods — a warning about Dec. 21, 2012, the date that marks the end of the Mayan calendar cycle, and when some people fear the world will end? Or is it simply the result of an iPhone glitch?

If it wasn’t for a certain pint-sized Argentinian genius, Cristiano Ronaldo would be head and shoulders above every other footballer on the planet.

At the weekend, the Portuguese superstar was at it again, netting a cheeky backheeled goal to give league leaders Real Madrid a vital 1-0 win in a local derby game. Here’s the goal, which was Ronaldo’s 29th of the campaign…